A good walk spoiled: DETOUR publisher plays a golf round at Louisiana State Penitentiary

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  • Published on June 16, 2022
  • Last Updated March 10, 2023
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Ron Stodghill loves to play a round of golf; there's nothing like it. But how did he react to a round he played at the nation's largest maximum security prison?

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Ron Stodghill

DETOUR’s publisher Ron Stodghill doesn’t regret the trips he’s taken, save for one.

As an avid golfer, Stodghill was given the chance to play a round of golf at Prison View Golf Course, which is the course housed in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known more commonly as Angola, with the prison’s warden at the time.

Golf is historically a white game, and Stodghill grappled with his willingness, as a Black man, to play alongside a white warden whose job involved keeping thousands of Black men incarcerated at the nation’s largest maximum security prison.

This story was created by Detour, a journalism brand focused on the best stories in Black travel, in partnership with McClatchy’s The Charlotte Observer and Miami Herald. Detour’s approach to travel and storytelling seeks to tell previously under-reported or ignored narratives by shifting away from the customary routes framed in Eurocentrism. The detour team is made up of an A-list of award-winning journalists, writers, historians, photographers, illustrators and filmmakers.

This story was originally published June 16, 2022 9:00 AM.

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